If Sea of Thieves Succeeds?

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Veknoid_Outcast said:

Azzanation said:

You know MS gave Rare the freedom to make Sea of thieves right?

Go on, name me the brands under MS that are forced to make single IPs that aren't built from the ground up under MS to do so in the first place?

Yeah, I think Don if off base here. If anything, Microsoft gives its studios too much freedom.

That's a hard one for me to accept when many say that Lionhead shut down partially because they were forced into making a games-as-a-service entry despite having no experience or desire in that direction.

I think the freedom aspect is circumstantial.  If Microsoft doesn't have plans then they might not care that much but if they want something in particular then they'll hand down a mandate.